I was going to download their movies to spite them, but looking it up they've only produced complete trash.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2024
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I am so conflicted on which side should I be on :/
A rough translation of a brazilian quote for you: "In a fight between these guys, I cheer for the fight".
I'm gonna say this all the time now
That's poetry
Brazilian phonk intensifies
You don't have to (and shouldn't) side with any for profit company
I'm glad Reddit won here because it sets a precedent that will protect less well-funded Lemmy instances.
Ever?
Small exception for when two for profit companies are fighting each other. At that point it becomes a question of which is the lesser evil.
So like the US elections.
If the film industry wins that could be a really awful precedent. Just sayin'
Welll y'know what they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that
Firms wanted seven years' worth of IP address logs
I doubt - or hope they don't - Reddit stores them for that long?
It's data that could have value, so I doubt they don't store it. I think the movie studios didn't offer enough. Or Reddit thought it was too damaging for this particular sale.
Le reddit wins legain, m'fellows!
Is that a red hat?
Careful now, IBM is also awfully litigious.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a motion to compel that was filed last month, movie companies Voltage Holdings and Screen Media Ventures argued that "Reddit users do not have a recognized privacy interest in their IP addresses."
But in Wednesday's ruling, US Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson said, "The Court finds no reason to believe provision of an IP address is not unmasking subject to First Amendment scrutiny."
Voltage Holdings and Screen Media Ventures previously sued the Internet service provider Frontier Communications, alleging that it is liable for its users' copyright infringement.
The fact that movie companies only sought IP addresses instead of names this time around wasn't enough to sway the court.
As in the previous cases, the movie companies "cannot show that the information they seek here is unavailable from other sources," Hixson wrote.
Voltage Holdings and Screen Media Ventures cited Reddit posts in which users say that Frontier didn't terminate their Internet service despite sending many copyright infringement notices about torrent downloads.
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